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Chapter 890 Compassion

When it was late that night, Wang Fulin looked at Feng Liu, who seemed to be just an ordinary skilled woman in the study.

Over the years, he has traveled around the world with a rich vision and has seen all kinds of different people, so he has accumulated a lot of experience in seeing people. Just from Feng Liu's neck and hands exposed outside, he can see that the other party is definitely not from the bottom-class civilians. Otherwise, his hands would not leave traces of life, and there would be almost no fine lines of years on his neck. Therefore, he lingered on the face that was not outstanding but rather mediocre, and he said in a deep voice: "Now you can tell the truth. Why is Mr. Cheng sending you to the capital for?"

"I am a firefly, I'll pay homage to Mr. Wang."

Seeing that the other party bowed down again, it was not the slightly hoarse voice before, but the voice was moving and the movements were elegant. Although Wang Fulin had already guessed, he was still quite surprised. After pondering for a moment, he asked: "Liuying, is Liuying the little fan of the Liuying? The so-called Feng Liuxiao family, the name Liuying must be from your flower name, right? Could it be that you came from Huaiyang Flower Boat? Feng is your husband's family?"

She just claimed the name of the flower that she used to be used, and Wang Fulin speculated without surprise. Liuying hesitated for a moment, finally raised her head and slowly pulled off a mask from her face. She saw that her true face was beautiful, and there were a little fine lines between her eyebrows and eyes. She looked like she could say forty, but someone believed her if she was thirty.

She knelt in front of her and said in a low voice: "It's the firefly that Mr. Wang mentioned. But Feng is the surname of my mother I used to follow, not my husband's surname. I came from a flower boat on Shou West Lake. During a banquet, I was redeemed by a famous salt merchant in Shanxi. From then on, I stopped working and served my husband by washing hands and soup."

Shanxi salt merchants? Why did they live in Yangzhou again and were sent by Mr. Cheng to disguise?

Wang Fulin was suspicious, but did not ask questions, but sat quietly waiting for the Liuying to say it himself.

"The Shanxi salt merchant who is well-known in Jianghuai and Suzhou is the third brother of Zhang Ge Lao, the second assistant of the dynasty, and Zhang Sijiao."

After hearing this sentence, Wang Fulin sat up straight and his eyes became extremely sharp: "Although the Zhang family in Puzhou is a merchant, he has been studying for several generations, so he regards himself as a Confucian businessman. In addition to the current secondary assistant, as far as I know, the brothers of the Zhang family have all studied since childhood, because although Zhang Ge Lao's father is good at doing business, he is too pedantic. Therefore, they have to do their best to support their brothers who have been prodigy since childhood, so they all go to do business. Therefore, even Zhang Sijiao should not be able to bring the women of wind and dust home just because the spring breeze on the flower boat once!"

Although Wang Fulin's words and sentences were extremely sharp, Liuying still seemed very calm. However, as the narrative was described, she seemed to have become immersed in it and changed her claim without realizing it.

"Mr. Wang is very clear. You are right. At that time, Zhang Sijiao just liked me that I had outstanding face, beautiful voice, and skillful skills in dressing up as a man and a woman. He brought me back to Shanxi. However, the Zhang family was strict and the family rules were strict. No matter how he covered up and said good things, the old man heard that I was from Yangzhou, so he did not allow me to enter. I became his other home wife. Later, I gave birth to a daughter, which hurt her body and could not get pregnant again. He used the excuse that his daughter could not be raised in a house, so he sent someone back to the Zhang family and placed it in the name of his second wife. Although I was reluctant to leave, I thought about it and agreed for the sake of my daughter's goodness."

As she talked about this past, Liuying's face was a little dark, but she was not as hysterical as an ordinary woman. However, she paused for a long time before continuing to talk.

"Zhang Sijiao was quite appreciated by his elder brother, the second assistant Zhang Ge Lao. Of course, this is also because Zhang Ge Lao's expenses for being an official were mostly provided by him when he was doing business abroad. Therefore, Zhang Ge Lao personally tried to donate the official position of the commander of the Dragon and Tiger Guard to him. In this way, when he was doing business abroad, he achieved twice the result with half the effort, and everyone respected him three points. Of course, this was all after Wanli. Before Zhang Ge Lao entered the cabinet, he did not have such a glory. That year, because Cangyan was not well sold, several Shanxi merchants went to Huaiyang but returned in a defeat, so he took me to Yangzhou again."

Speaking of several Shanxi merchants who went to Huaiyang but returned in a defeat, Wang Fulin suddenly felt aroused his heart. You know, before participating in the Nanzhili provincial examination in the first year of Wanli, he had been to Yangzhou once. That time, the Hui Gang was against the Jin Gang, and the Jin Gang even brought Wang Daomin, the fourth wife of the Wang family in Songmingshan, as an insider, but was cheated by Mr. Cheng. Could it be that what Liuying said was that time?

Thinking of this, he listened more attentively, and Liuying did not hide it around the bush, but instead revealed the key point in one sentence.

"Zhang Sijiao had not been involved in Huaiyang Salt Industry for several years. After arriving in Yangzhou, he first did not show off his mountains and waters, did not hand over the government, nor did he get involved in the officialdom, and only visited the fireworks. After half a year, he finally understood the inside story of the Huigang. Among the four major surnames of the Huigang in Yangzhou, the Wang family of Songmingshan and the Cheng family of Huangjiawu, which are branches of Wang and Cheng, have always been close because of their relationship that is better than their in-laws, while the Xu family has some conflicts due to their separation, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it. The Wu family, the Wu family in Xixinan, is the most lustful person. When Zhang Sijiao found out that Wu Tianming loved his wife the most, he gave me to him through a banquet."

Giving concubines is not uncommon in the officialdom, let alone in the shopping malls. This is a familiar story. Therefore, Wang Fulin only felt a little disgusted, but it was just a little disgusted. This is the trend of this society. He could not control even if he was an emperor, let alone he was not an emperor. But when he heard the name Wu Tianming, he still remembered that Mr. Cheng told him that Wu Tianming could not rank among the salt merchants in Huizhou, but had ten or eight thin horses.

"I had been with the Zhang Si Cult for eight years at that time, because no one of my sisters had encountered such a thing. In addition, when I left Puzhou, I looked at my daughter from afar and saw that she seemed to be doing well. Therefore, when Zhang Si Cult mentioned this to me, although I was shocked and angry and sad for a few days, I also accepted my fate and agreed. However, I did not expect that the Zhang Si Cult told me to practice the voices of Wu Tianming and the servants around him vividly. Only then did I realize that his purpose was impure, but he threatened his daughter and had to follow him."

"I was fascinated by Wu Tianming and easily completed Zhang Sijiao's orders. He took advantage of Wu Tianming's absence and brought me out of the Wu family. Under his instructions, I learned the voices of Wu Tianming and his two confidants from the Wu family's shopkeepers, and thus broke Wu Tianming's big business, which was not counted, but also made him have a quarrel with Mr. Cheng. Even so, Wu Tianming didn't think of me as a escaped concubine. He followed the same trick and gave me to Mr. Xu through others as a win over. After instigating people, he took the opportunity to instruct several Shanxi merchants to force him."

"If Mr. Cheng hadn't finally noticed something was wrong and then visited several salt merchants, the Hui Gang would have almost split. But Zhang Sijiao saw that the Jin Gang had established a stable foothold and no longer needed me. He was worried that if I showed any slightest movement, he would help me escape from Mr. Xu Er and say to take me back to Shanxi. I believed him again, but this time, after I came out, he hoarse my voice..."

Liuying finally stopped and said for a long time, "But even so, he said that it was just to prevent the evidence from being revealed. A couple's kindness for a hundred days will not make me feel bad. To be precise, I dare not make me feel bad. However, the boat back home sank halfway, and I can do water and save an old lady who sent me back to Puzhou. Because my mother was grateful for my life-saving grace, she told me that the daughter I gave to Zhang Sijiao had long died of illness. What he asked me to see before was just his youngest daughter. I don't know if the boat was sunk by Professor Zhang Si. I found out that he gave two stunning Yangzhou thin horses to Wu Tianming and Master Xu Er. I was hoarse. Even if I confessed to Wu Tianming, it would be impossible to get trust. Then I found Master Cheng."

Wang Fulin has never been a person with a strong heart, but he is not a person who believes it. Although Liuying's words sound very logical, he still asked: "Why did Mr. Cheng believe all your words?"

"Mr. Cheng is merciful and healed my throat."

Although it was only a few dozen words, it had already revealed the mystery. At least this reason was enough to convince Wang Fulin. Of course, the most important thing was that Liuying took out a seal from her arms and presented it to him. He took it in his hand, confirmed that the seal was correct, and then tore open the envelope and took out the letter paper. On the only piece of white paper, Mr. Cheng used the familiar handwriting to write only two simple lines of words.

"This woman is a mute medicine. I will provide medical treatment for her. If she can use it, she will use it. If she cannot use it, she will keep it. If she can't, she will marry her. Doing a good deed every day is better than making money every day."

Wang Fulin put the letter on the desk and then asked, "Who did you disguise on your face?"

"It is the simple skills I learned in flower boats, but it can only make people mediocre. If others don't look at it more, they will still have big flaws when they look closely. I think no one will look at a woman who is over 50 years old."

"Then let me ask you again, how old are you now? Mr. Cheng sent you to the capital. Do you want to take revenge?"

"I became a good person at the age of twenty, and now I am thirty-four." Liuying's eyes suddenly dimmed when she said this. If her daughter and Zhang Sijiao were still alive, she should be thirteen years old this year and could get married. However, because she became a monk and was entrusted with a man, the first and only child in her life died in such an unknown way, and she might not even be able to find a place for worship!

"Mr. Wang just said revenge. I thought about it, of course, but so what if I kill the Zhang Si Sect? My daughter can't live back, and I can't come back the past ten years I wasted. I just didn't want to. I was unwilling to accept it. I started from the flower boat since I remembered it, and finally followed a man who never cared about me. In the end, I had to die me mediocrely!" She said as she tried to raise her head and stared at Wang Fulin's eyes. "I told Mr. Cheng that I just wanted to walk up to the Zhang Si Sect and slapped him twice! And Mr. Cheng told me that he would never do it, but Mr. Wang might be able to do it!"

Mr. Cheng, you really look down on me!

Wang Fulin complained wildly to Mr. Cheng, who was shirking responsibility in his heart, but answered plainly: "Okay, I know all of what you said."

He did not continue to investigate the matter of Zhang Sijiao. In the struggle in the mall, he believed that after Master Cheng, a first-class veteran, would definitely launch a general attack at the right time after knowing the inside story. The fierce counterattack was enough for any opponent to drink. Therefore, after pondering for a while, he continued to say, "You are the one sent by Master Cheng. Since he is kind, I will leave you behind. Looking back, I will say to Grandma Cheng, saying that he was rewarded with twenty taels of silver and married you to the person in the farmhouse. But I will secretly send someone to send you to a dentist, and then buy you home through her, with your true face."

Liuying just didn't want to drag the dead flower and the broken willow to marry a man in a daze. Although she is not young now and cannot have children, it is still easy to find a man based on her appearance. However, she almost had no such luxury to find a good man. Therefore, she nodded without thinking about it, without any hesitation.

Since he had already learned about Liuying, Wang Fulin asked him to go down, and when he returned to the main room, he asked Xiaobei to call Yan's mother and briefly talk about the matter he had just asked. Seeing Xiaobei and Yan's mother looking at each other, he continued, "Mom Yan, I'll think about it and take Liuying to see the dentist, and then buy the person back. I'll leave this matter to you. After someone enters the mansion, you will take her with her. Whoever she learns like someone's ventriloquy may be useful in the future, not to mention that the relationship between her and Zhang Sijiao may be useful in the future. But at home, you might as well treat people as your wife in charge."

Yan's mother wanted to refuse. After all, what good can the people from the brothel Chuguan have? Even if they are in their early thirties, what if they are restless and want to seduce people? But when she heard that she was asking her to take care of her, not by Xiaobei, she weighed her side and agreed readily, thinking that the person who put it under my nose was afraid that she would make any mistakes?

When Yan's mother retreated, Wang Fulin stretched his waist and collapsed on the Arhat's bed, not wanting to move at all. He went to see Wang Xijue in the morning and Zhang Juzheng in the afternoon. In the evening, he carefully questioned the firefly sent by Mr. Cheng. Is this a waitress? He was more tired than working in the Censorate all day!

Therefore, when Xiaobei asked someone to make a basin of water and twisted a soft towel and applied it to his face, he suddenly grabbed her hand and said word by word: "I saw Wang Xijue's old couple today but I was still happy. I heard Liuying say that Zhang Sijiao's use was completely cold and ruthless. Do you know what I was thinking?"

Knowing Wang Fulin's temperament, Xiaobei deliberately joked: "What do you think? Could it be that you want to swear to me, saying that you will never change your mind in this life?"

"I still need to swear to you?"

Wang Fulin laughed loudly and suddenly pulled Xiaobei down on himself with force. When he held the person in his arms, he said lightly: "I just feel that background and luck are really important in a person's life. Even if he has thousands of talents and abilities, if he is born to be stepped on in the mud, then at most one in ten thousand is possible to break free. But if he is born to have a good environment, then as long as he is a little talent, there is a greater possibility of making a name for himself. I am very lucky. At least when I open my eyes, although my family owes huge debts and almost got plotted to seize fame and fortune, at least there are also good uncles and uncles in the clan, and I have found a chance to turn the tables."

To cherish the present, he has to do more!
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